Just gotta say that the Tgi3D plugin is amazing. I've been messing around with it, trying to familiarize myself with how it works, and I'm just stunned.

@dtrarch said: Check out the Adobe examples. Looks like the 3D PDF's were all produced by SimLab plugins. The one with dimensions was just not a SU export. What makes you think they were produced with the Simlab plugin? I looked at several of the 3D PDF examples on the Adobe web page but see no indication they were output from the SimLab plugin. ?? Futher, Simlab Soft support told me "Units saved in 3D PDF are always converted to meters, so all measurements will be in Meter." Yet, several of the examples I looked at have the units/scale set to inches or mili-meters. So, it seems rev 2.4 of the SimLab plugin has another problem - it won't export the units/scale from SketchUp into the 3D PDF. Without that information in there, Acrobat Reader will pop up a dialog to ask the user what units/scale they want when you go in to measure/analysis mode - which is confusing for the reader/user. I do hope the SimLab plugin gets improved soon...

@dave r said: Jeff, I just tried the same sphere with JPP on my MacBook with OSX 10.6.8. It was just as fast as on my PC. yeah.. i had a corrupt plist file.. still wandering how it became corrupted in the first place but i'm back to normal now.. i briefly tried to find something weird in there and i came across these two entries.. [image: 3GGg_1.jpg] [image: 1ZQf_2.jpg] there's a jointpushpull and a joinpushpull1 (no 't' in joint?) i'm not sure if both of those should be in there and if not, i'm not sure how the extra one came into play.. maybe an older version? (i've been using this same plist for a while now.. transferred my su7 settings to it etc.. i dread refreshing my su environment but maybe this is a clue that i should do it now )

With respect, I cringe when I read the title of your thread. What do you mean by good? and what context are you proposing to use such a plugin for? You lose a lot of time because you lack an understanding of who the drawings, you are producing, are for. Are you producing Working Drawings? or are you producing Preliminary Design Drawings? Mixing Windows with Glass curtain walls is like trying to mix oil and water. No typical residential window, is not going to preform as a Glass curtain wall installed in a 50 story Highrise. You also capitalize glass THICKNESS. I have never tried to show the thickness of a sheet of glass, particularly difficult in the old days, using a 4H mechanical pencil Drawings consist of 2 parts Specification and working drawings. Specification normally describe the quality of the materials used. The working drawings are concerned with how the Window is going to be attached to the structural frame of the building. If your are producing Preliminary design drawings "less is more " less detail is actually more desirable, it will reduce the file size in SketchUP. Imagine how much you can reduce the file size of a 50 story highrise using a simple sheet to glass in the exterior openings versus showing a detailed curtain wall profile. Also showing Glass THICKNESS, is not a good thing if you intend to render Glass using Vray.

Thanks, I understand the limitations. I just wanted something to clean-up carelessly-named components. I was also thinking about a plugin for renaming definitions based on their "_name" atributes (for DC's) so the component names in the Outliner and the names in the Dynamic Attributes editor matched up.

I think this is RADICAL! This is the missing link or missing native tool. It's another push-pull / follow-me function. This obviates the need for many typical "intersection" applications (eg. roof constructions and rake walls). Just pick some roof lines (hip or gable) and run them into adjacent roofs and walls. A dormer is made from the 2d elevation. DesignWorkshop had a similar feature long ago, with some other tweaks for components. I think it only went in the Z direction though. I'm going to have this tool out and ready to use. Should be fun. Thanks TIG!

@ipsketchpi said: I do not have such comand. Does it come from some plug in? it's a plugin called recurve... see the third post in this thread. .

This just saved me a lot of trouble. Thanks!

Initial / at the beginning of a path means the root of the harddrive. To correct it: c = File.join( File.dirname(__FILE__), 'CBG', 'clinetool_cursor.png' )

You can find a simple vertex counter of mine here. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=41953

Find my DropVertices tool [image: oYHi_Capture.PNG]

Well, yes that's what I was looking for! Thank you Jeff, and thank you Sdmitch! now I tried and I got it! wow. Well, also thank you very much to all other suggestions. I also tried the TIG's Freerotate plugin. I remembered that I already used that but it was too complicated to get the axis, i don't know if it's my computer but before it appears that sphere of guides to define the rotation it delays quite alot, I don't know if before it appears the program calculates so many things, but it slows down a bit. In my computer I need to wait about 5 secons before I can manipulate the component/object or even to toggle to axis rotation I also have to wait a bit, but maybe it's in my computer which is a bit old. I'll keep this plugin for when I change computer which I cannot afford yet. You know... crisis problem. Well, I tell you guys, by now... you solved my problem so you know, one said that you can never go to sleep without learning something new. I'm much happier now. I really aprreciate all your suggestions and advices. Ferrie

Thanks Kris. Upgraded this morning.

looks and sounds good. been waiting for the new LSS Toolbar. thank you kirill.

this is why i always love kerkythea they do things with love

%(#0080FF)[Thanks Tig, I have now downloaded and tried the 'extrude tool, beautiful, simple and effective, including the toolbars I found the tutorial here that I read quietly after translating them, and learned well, thank you many. ]

You can import 3ds files with the free version.

I think he means a tool for normal mapping, bump mapping or something similar to that which, when applied to a surface, will deform and add vertexes to the mesh according to the map? or perhaps a real-time render plugin that makes it look that way even though it isn't? I'm not sure myself

@thomthom said: Right-Click Face -> Align View I was thinking in a changing the views as an option like happens in axes. But this will do it for me. Thanks